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Golden Globes announce podcast nominations
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The 2026 nominees for the Golden Globes Best Podcast were announced - the first time podcasts have been recognised. The nominees are: Armchair Expert (Wondery), Call Her Daddy (SiriusXM), Good Hang (Spotify), SmartLess (SiriusXM), The Mel Robbins Podcast (SiriusXM), and Up First (NPR). The podcast nomination announcement was made in the portion that wasnât televised. The awards show is on Jan 11. SiriusXM has half the nominations. âWe couldnât be prouder,â said the companyâs Scott Greenstein. Additional...Laura Mayer has joined Talkhouse
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Laura Mayer has joined Talkhouse as Head of Podcasts. She was the Executive Producer of Podcast Programming at ABC News; and made Shameless Acquisition Target, a podcast acquired by Gilded Audio in Jan 2023. The first inductees for the Podcast Hall of Fame 2026 have been announced. They are: Dan Carlin, the host of Hardcore History; podcastingâs Arielle Nissenblatt, and CEO of Captivate, Mark Asquith. Tickets for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony are available now. Ne...The Rest is History crowned âShow of the Yearâ
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Apple Podcasts named The Rest is History the 2025 Show of the Year - the first time the accolade has gone to a show that isnât from the United States. Apple Podcasts has interviewed the hosts, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Exclusive: PRX and AudioUK have announced a 2026 Podcast Creator Summit in London, UK, inviting podcasters of all experience levels to share and gain insights spanning the art and business of making podcasts and audio. Th...Spotify Wrapped for Creators 2025
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Spotify Wrapped was released, including Spotify Wrapped for Creators, which gives podcasters a yearâs data for your own show. We learn 76 fans have the Podnews Daily as their #1 show (and Taylor Swift is your favourite artist). For shows hosted elsewhere, the data is only for consumption on Spotify. Nina Yiamsamantha, Spotifyâs Head of Creator Marketing, Podcasts, told Podnews: âWrapped for Creators this year is bigger than ever and dedicated to creators and their fans. Itâs a look...YouTube publishes top charts for 2025
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YouTube released its annual end of year trending lists. The Global Culture & Trends Report 2025 contains top ten lists of creators, topics and songs across a number countries and regions; and - for the US only - a list of top podcasts, calculated by total watch time. The Joe Rogan Experience is #1; Kill Tony is at #2; and Good Mythical Morning - a video-only show - is at #3. The full list is at the bottom of their press release. The...Acast enhances YouTube offerings
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First look: Acast has announced a dramatically enhanced YouTube program in the UK, allowing advertisers to access some of the largest YouTube podcasts. As part of the deal, Acast also signed an inventory partnership with Little Dot Studios, which has eleven billion monthly views on the platform. Little Dot Studios will work with Acast on its new YouTube offering, allowing Acast UK creators to unlock significant new revenue streams, and to grow...Episode 2,000 for âStart Hereâ
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Congratulations to Start Here, the daily news podcast from ABC News, which published its 2,000th episode this morning. The podcast was launched in March 2018, and is hosted by Brad Mielke, whoâll be a guest on the Podnews Weekly Review this week. YouTubeâs algorithm appears to have changed in September: it now heavily favours recency, according to Mario Joos on LinkedIn - who shares a way you can isolate the data for...Crossed Wires wins award at the APAs
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The winners of the APAs from AudioUK were announced in London. The organisers of Sheffieldâs Crossed Wires Festival, which took place in early July, were presented with the AudioUK Award. Weâve a full list of the winners. 404 Media says that Apple Podcasts is being used for a sophisticated hack. The article suggests simply visiting a website can trigger Apple Podcasts to open and go to a podcast episode without user inte...Why you should be thankful for winning awards
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Thank you to the folks at Sounds Profitable and The Podglomerate, who will be hosting a free webinar on strategic podcast awards budgeting on Dec 11. The webinar will talk about the benefits of awards, including enhanced visibility, increased credibility, and expanded monetization opportunities - and why you ought to budget for entering them. Be grateful for iOS 26.2, a free upgrade hitting your iPhone in December (Dec 9-16 ish) which adds automatic chapters for ev...Award winners in Arkansas; and Patreonâs podcast hosting
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The winners of the ARKAST Podcast Awards were announced at the second annual event in Little Rock AK, USA. Tiger Talk won the Kids and Family, Young Pod and Rising Star categories. Last week, Riverside launched podcast hosting as a free service for its customers. This week, Patreon launches RSS-based podcast hosting for its users. You can âinsert previews of your paid episodes in your public RSS feed to help more listeners discover and upgrade to your paid membershipâ. The anno...Pocket Casts adds playlists
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Popular podcast app Pocket Casts has added a new feature called âplaylistsâ. You can create a manual playlist yourself, or automate a Smart Playlist based on rules. The feature is already available on web and desktop, and is rolling out to mobile. Ausha launched the PSO Category Benchmark, which compares your show to others in its category. It tells us that Podnewsâs show notes are shorter than others in our category. And, it says our Podnew...The podcasts listened-to most by shoppers forâŚ
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Triton Digital has two podcast rankers in the US - one based on data, containing participating podcasts only (here, for October), but itâs just released a new set of data based on a survey (here, called Q2 but actually for Q3 2025). Tritonâs survey-based Podcast Ranker also includes Demos+ data which ranks shows based on a number of demographic data points to help brands know where to advertise. The data is fre...The best performing comedy shows for ads
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Bill Burr performs on stage, but also performs best for advertisers on his podcast - so says the ORBIT Rankings from Oxford Road, focusing this month on the top 15 performing comedy podcasts that deliver the best results for the advertisers who used them. Burrâs Monday Morning Podcast is at #1, NPRâs perennial favourite Wait Wait Donât Tell Me is at #10. âThere are plenty of ways to turn the funny into money,â...Acast makes noise on NASDAQ Stockholm
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Acast started trading on NASDAQ Stockholm today. Celebrating today: Marianne BostrĂśm, Chief People Officer; Lizzy Pollott, Chief Communications & Brand Officer; Emily Villatte, CFO; Greg Glenday, CEO; Daniel Adrian, General Counsel. The shares are currently down about -1.75%, but year-on-year the Acast share price has more than doubled, up +105.33%. RSS.com has launched free podcast hosting. Made for local & niche podcasters, the free plan offers unlimited episodes and unlimited audio, and ana...Apple Podcasts shares most popular shows of 2025
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Apple Podcasts released a set of rankings for the most popular shows in each country - showing the âtop showsâ (based on listenership), âtop new showsâ that first published in 2025, âmost followed showsâ, âmost shared showsâ, and âtop channelsâ. You can see your countryâs chart here. Based on listenership data, rankings for Apple Podcastsâ âtop showsâ (and top new shows) appear in seventy different countries: weâve all those country lists in full. In the US, J...Audio is still #1 for podcasts
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Audio is still the #1 way to consume podcasts, despite the chatter about video. Thatâs one of the findings of the latest Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights Podcast Download Report, published yesterday. Over half of podcast consumers on YouTube also listen to the same podcasts on another platform. Only 8% just watch podcasts, a number that hasnât changed since 2022. You can download the report in full, and watch the webinar this Thur...Australiaâs one ID for audio listeners
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In Australia, the industry body for commercial radio and audio, CRA, has launched CRA Audio ID, a âunified cross-network identity solutionâ. It allows a listener to be automatically given the same ID whatever radio station or podcast they consume (from a number of different companies) - meaning better audience de-duplication and frequency management. Itâs now trading via Googleâs DSP, the slightly-awkwardly-named âDisplay & Video 360â. Podcast Nation brought together over fifty podcast hosts...Irelandâs award-winning podcasts
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The winners of the All-Ireland Podcast Awards were announced. Nicky Byrne won the Spotlight Award. The Irish Independent won two separate awards. Weâve a full list of the winners. The invite-only Podcast Business Summit took place in Los Angeles. It was hosted by Bloombergâs Ashley Carman, who shared this gift-link to read her coverage. (Podnews readers can get a 25% discount off her newsletter.) How loyal is your podcast audience? The idea...Podcast diversity is âwoefulâ, says new report
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64% of the hosts of the most popular US podcasts of 2024 were men - and the top shows are significantly less diverse than the top movies, TV or music, a report from USC Annenbergâs Inclusion Initiative says. Shows with video are more likely to have male hosts; the worst gender balance is with business and technology podcasts, where men host 92% of shows. Women-hosted podcasts are more than twice as likely to have female gues...Study: is video worth doing for your podcast?
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Measured by the cost of an âhour of attentionâ, producing video as well as audio for your podcast costs +77% more than audio alone. Producing video increases staffing levels by around +50%, and increases production costs 3.6x. But is video worth it? A new study from the Podcast Marketing Academy with Lower Street, using data from more than 300 respondents, suggests that audio remains a powerful tool for maintaining attention; but adding video can drive...tiktok gets into podcasting
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TikTok is coming to podcasting, with the announcement of the TikTok Podcast Network, containing up to 25 new shows hosted by TikTok creators. TikTok is working with iHeartMedia, who will create co-branded, state of the art video-capable podcast studios in LA, NY and Atlanta. The companies will also launch radio stations and live events. Podcasting is âprobably the hottest category of media right nowâ, according to iHeart CEO Bob Pitt...85% of indie podcasters arenât monetising
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85% of indie podcasters arenât making money, according to The Independent Podcaster Report 2025, published today by Alitu. But - this isnât bad news: only 9% of those who took part consider revenue and profitability as their primary measure of success. Clear evidence - if we needed it - that weâre not all in it for the money. Most spend 4-5 hours working on each episode. The biggest threats to podcasting is increased competition and the use of AI, the study says. At the BBC...Elsie leaves Libsyn
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Elsie Escobar has announced that she has left Libsyn. Inducted into the Podcasting Hall of Fame in 2017, she had worked for Libsyn for almost nineteen years. We reported on the sudden closure of The Feed yesterday, which she had been hosting since July 2013. âI feel immense gratitude and pride â for the people, the lessons, and the legacy we co-created.â CoHost launched the New Listener Metric...TV and podcasting are true companions
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Video and podcasting can work really well together - when promoting each other, says new research from Sounds Profitable and Owl & Co. 16% of podcast listeners have purchased a streaming subscription after hearing about a show they want to watch - and 44% of listeners to a podcast about a TV show or movie talk to their friends about the TV show. The Daily reaches twice...Apple Podcasts to add AI-generated chapters for everyone
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Chapters are a great way to navigate through podcasts; and now, Apple Podcasts has announced automated chapters for almost every episode from the release of iOS 26.2 - which weâd expect to see released to the public next month. Weâve a full FAQ for creators who want to see Appleâs automated chapters; how to use chapters in the app; how to opt...Acastâs Podcast Pulse highlights podcast benefits
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Acast has released Podcast Pulse 2025, its second set of data into global podcast listeners, for the brands who...A magic way to remember stuff from podcasts
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A new tool called Podcast Magic has been launched. It lets you capture ideas or moments from podcasts right in your email - just by emailing them a screenshot of your podcast player. The tool automatically sends a clip and transcript back to you - no app, or login, required. You can test it for free; itâs a one-off $20 for unlimited insights. The wa...A new home for Crime Junkie
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Audiochuck has signed with Red Seat Ventures for ad sales representation for Audiochuckâs podcasts. The podcasts were with SiriusXM. The deal with the Crime Junkie publisher, apparently worth $150mn, also includes a FAST channel on video streaming platforms FOX One and Tubi. Both Tubi and Red Seat Ventures are owned by FOX. ...Making podcast ads easier to buy
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First look: Triton Digital has launched AdBuilder AI, a tool to help its partners sell more efficiently to small and medium-sized businesses. The tool allows smaller advertisers to make broadcast-quality audio ads using AI, then book them with a credit card, all automatically - freeing salespeople up to focus on larger or growing clients. Itâs already in use in MĂŠxic...Spotify adds video to Apple TV app
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Spotifyâs app on Apple TV didnât, astonishingly, have any access to video podcasts: an oversight that has been fixed today: the tvOS app now includes them, more than a year after video podcasts were rolled-out to creators. The app also now includes Spotify DJ, a feature which was launched i...New, open podcast hosting company launches
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Fountain has announced the launch of Fountain for Podcasters, a new podcast hosting service. Fountain for Podcasters distributes video to supported apps (including the podcast app Fountain itself), and also supports streaming payments and paid subscriptions - using open standards to do so, including RSS, Lightning and Nostr. The company...Should you censor swear-words in your podcast?
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Should you censor swear-words? The Bugle, satirical news podcast and âaudio newspaper for a visual worldâ, published its listener survey for 2025. Among the findings - the show currently bleeps out swear-words; but the survey suggests 53.3% would support removing the bleeps. British Airways has pulled a paid sponsorship of Louis Therouxâs podc...Acast Studios New York opens
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Acast Studios New York have officially opened. The first person to use them: one of the best-selling music artists of all time, Ariana Grande, who is on todayâs episode of Shut up Evan with Evan Ross Katz. The facility - in the heart of SoHo - is a fully multimedia space with the highest-quality audio and video capabilities, plus bespoke branding opportunities, and is available...Where to promote movies for the ears?
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Podcasts can be movies for the ears - so CurtCo promoted their sci-fi series Solar to movie-goers in the cinema for much of last month. There were trailers played on the big screen - and movie posters in the lobby - at all locations of Maya Cinemas. Luxurist magazine, an up-market magazine in the UK, has placed six South Asian podcasters on the front cover of its l...New multi-track recorder from Zoom
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Just in time for Christmas, Zoom (the audio equipment manufacturer) is to launch the Zoom PodTrak P4next, a portable XLR multitrack recorder with âAI noise reductionâ, compression and tone shaping. Hereâs a demo video. Itâs marked as âcoming soonâ on B&H for $179.99. Weâve not had a press release for it, but it appears to have been announced yesterday. Already got a nice recorder, but w...The first ranker for podcasts where the ads really work
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Advertisers arenât (just?) looking for big audiences and big download numbers. Oxford Road suggests that theyâre actually looking for advertising that works: and have published ORBIT: the first podcast ranker measured by ad performance, based on $1.6bn of advertising spend. CEO Dan Granger: âFor 15 years, marketers have been making decisions without this data. That changes today.â Interestingly, only one show appears in both ORBIT and t...Trebble launches reliable AI podcast editing tool
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Trebble has launched a new, âreliable AI editing toolâ, called DeepCut. The tool can be personalised to specific podcasts; and can be given natural language instructions. An optional upgrade, Safe Cut, can be used to automatically make edits that sound natural. The company, which is more than twelve years old, has also had a makeover: a new logo and website. Edison Research released the Top 50 Podcasts in...No bull: Lower Street launches video production service
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Lower Street has launched a video podcast production service. The founder and CEO Harry Morton announced the companyâs approach in a video - filmed sitting in a field with three cows, seemingly in the pursuit of a metaphor about yoghurt. The companyâs philosophy is that a video podcast shouldnât just be a repurposed audio recording; we suspect itâs also learnt that Shure SM7Bs shou...400 UK audio businesses ask for recognition
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Over 400 UK podcasting and audio businesses have signed an open letter to the UK government demanding recognition in the Creative Industries Strategy, which could lead to funding for IP development or access to tax relief. The letter was issued by AudioUK, who also announced that the UKâs DCMS has committed to commissioning a research study to measure key data across the podcast and audio industry. ...Spotify-owned podcasts to be on Netflix
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Spotify and Netflix have announced a partnership to deliver a selection of Spotifyâs top video podcasts to Netflix. The deal starts in early 2026, in the US only. Full video of those shows will be removed from YouTube - and will be available only on Spotify and Netflix. YouTube still gets clips; while audio versions of the podcasts will remain available across platforms. The selected s...
